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Hood's fallen
Tragedy at Fort Hood
Date published: 11/6/2009
ACLOCK that started ticking on Sept. 11, 2001, marking the time without a second mass-casualty terrorist attack on U.S. soil, seemed to have stopped yesterday afternoon, Texas time, at mammoth Ford Hood. Early reports indicated that more than one shooter at more than one site on the base had opened fire on U.S. soldiers and their families, murdering a dozen and wounding many more than that. But as the mists of mayhem thin, this turns out apparently not to be so. Instead, the carnage in Texas resets a shorter-working clock, the one separating massacres by lone, angry lunatics. The central figure in this episode is Nidal Malik Hasan, a Northern Virginia-reared, Virginia Tech-educated Army major who worked as a psychiatrist at the base. Major Hasan, stopped by an MP's bullets from swelling the toll, was, in fact, the ultimate loner--unmarried, childless, and reportedly alienated from the Army "family," perhaps in part because of his Middle Eastern ethnicity and Muslim faith. As we write, the major, who was fighting imminent deployment abroad, appears to have acted very much alone. To the nation, this is comforting. The loved ones of the dead do not feel comforted. They feel as if their whole worlds have died--surreally, shockingly, in a place of refuge and return from the country's wars. Americans also are shocked, and terribly saddened, by this tragedy. In the hours ahead, facts will emerge, and pundits will tear lessons from the loss. But for now it is enough to bow our heads as "Taps" stirs our common soul, remembering the service of Hood's fallen that has kept that 9/11 clock ticking, and still ticking, for so long.
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spoon?
(posted by
cassandra&sarasdaddy
, Nov. 8, 2009 12:26 am)
disingenuous much? 22 percent of power from nat gas and 49 percent from coal. and we need to shoot the green nutty crunchies before we build any more nukes
Advocating renewable energy doesn’t make someone a Marxist.
(posted by
silverspoon
, Nov. 7, 2009 9:34 am)
The US has had budget deficits since Methuselah was in diapers. Spain hasn’t been much of an economic power since the armada. Japans unemployment rate is only about half what ours is. The entire earth is in an economic depression and you blame that on wind & solar power advances?
Saddam wasn’t funding al Qaeda.
(posted by
silverspoon
, Nov. 7, 2009 8:52 am)
Saudi Arabian sources have that distinction. Saddam’s funding of terrorists was aimed at his enemies in the region like the Kurds and Israel. Just about every government in the middle east supports terrorist attacks against Israel. Some of them have lots of oil. Lets attack them too. UN sanctions worked at preventing biological and nuclear WMD programs in Iraq. Our primary reasons for invasion didn’t exist.
Two useful examples
(posted by
mustang2
, Nov. 7, 2009 7:46 am)
1. Spain-implemented the wind,solar,non carbon based policies Obama is pushing a few years ago. been a disaster economically. No gain. Horrible unemployment and loss of jobs and productivity.
2. Japan-adopted Keynesian economic deficit spending and stimulus and spent over a decade with stagnant growth and unemployment.
These methods have been tried. They don't work. Obama is a Marxist left wing idealogue. He hates capitalism and his country. He needs to go.
Iraw was participating in helping those who attacked
(posted by
mustang2
, Nov. 7, 2009 6:23 am)
us on 9/11. Just like Germany was helping Japan in the lead up to WW2. Germany did not attack us. Japan did. But we went to war with Germany as well. This position that Iraq did not attack us and therefore we should not have invaded despite their blatant violations of the terms of the Gulf War is naive and silly. In wars you do what is strategically doable. It all contributes to the outcome. Hussain paid families of suicide bombers as a reward thus encourages terrorism. Intelligence is not always perfect.
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